I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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A little too late, is much too late. ~German Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. ~Lyle Lovett
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything. ~Marjane Satrapi
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He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb
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